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Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard from Blue Apron Reviewed

April 14, 2016 by Food For Net

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I love stew, but it takes so long to cook that I never actually take the time to do it. This meatball ragout is a good compromise. It has all the makings of a great stew recipe (meat, veggies, sauce), but it takes much less time. The ingredients are very basic, and you can get a large (or small), hearty meal out of this that kids and adults will love. Here's the ingredients - simple huh? Carrots, onion, potato, and swiss chard (plus ground beef). Ok, there's a few other items shown below, but you can substitute those as you…
Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard from Blue Apron Reviewed
Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard from Blue Apron Reviewed
2016-04-14
Food For Net
An amazingly easy recipe that's filling, and of course delicious. Cut down on time required to make by coarsely chopping veggies or prepping beforehand. Make extra for lunch tomorrow!

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  • Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard
    • 96%
      • Great!

Meatball Ragout with Swiss Chard

Speed - 88%
Ease of Cooking - 95%
Tastiness - 100%
Met Expectations - 100%

96%

Great!

An amazingly easy recipe that's filling, and of course delicious. Cut down on time required to make by coarsely chopping veggies or prepping beforehand. Make extra for lunch tomorrow!

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meatball ragout swiss chard blue apron

I love stew, but it takes so long to cook that I never actually take the time to do it. This meatball ragout is a good compromise. It has all the makings of a great stew recipe (meat, veggies, sauce), but it takes much less time. The ingredients are very basic, and you can get a large (or small), hearty meal out of this that kids and adults will love.

Here's the ingredients – simple huh? Carrots, onion, potato, and swiss chard (plus ground beef). Ok, there's a few other items shown below, but you can substitute those as you want. I featured the onion here, but didn't use it in the recipe because I had a date later that night. Made that mistake once…never again!

blue apron meatball ragout ingredients

The only thing that really took long for this recipes was chopping everything up. As a novice cook, I tend to follow a recipe word for word the first time, so I prepped everything like Blue Apron showed in their recipe card. Wow, I have to do a lot more dishes when I cook meals like this!

If I were to repeat this recipe, I'd start out by cutting the potatoes, getting those frying, then starting everything else.

blue apron meatball ragout ingredients chopped

Once your potatoes are frying, you can start making the meatballs. Here's a huge ball of beef, but mixed in there is also breadcrumbs and spices. The breadcrumbs make the beef balls not-so-dense. Season with anything you want, and you can even make them spicy if you want!

meatball breadcrumbs spice

Here's the meatballs I made. They are a little time consuming because I wanted them to be round for the photos, but you could probably save some time by just frying chunks of ground beef as you pull them off the main beef ball mixture (shown above).

meatballs cooking

Now they have my frying the potatoes. If you have two pans, you can cook the potatoes in one, and beef balls in the other. It'll save time. Potatoes take a long time to cook. Remember, an overcooked potato is still tasty. An undercooked one is not!

potatoes cooking pan

You can start adding more veggies after the potatoes start to soften up. Chop 'em up small if you want them to cook faster! There's carrots, swiss chard stems, and anything else you want in there! I think peas would go nice too.

pan fried swiss chard carrots

Next I added the tomato sauce. I'm not sure why they have us cook the sauce until it starts to thicken and get fragrant. Can't you just add it to the water mixture (coming up next). Perhaps it picks up other flavors from the pan. Anyway, here's what it looks like – just regular ol' tomato sauce.

pan fried swiss chard carrots tomato sauce

Add the swiss chard leaves and the beef balls, with some water to get everything cooking.

add swiss chard

Once the leaves start to wilt, you'll get a more even mixture, almost like a stew!

boiling veggies and meatballs

Now we're cooking! Let it meld the flavors and reduce the water slightly til it starts to thicken. I forgot to picture it, but I actually added a corn starch + water mixture right at the end to give it a final thickness that you see in the photos. The corn starch is how you end up with s saucy glaze instead of a soup on your meatball ragout!

boiling veggies and meatballs 2

Mmmm. That's a wonderful presentation! Would have liked more though. I'd double this recipe for two big eaters.

meatball ragout swiss chard final 1

 

meatball ragout swiss chard closeup 1

Check out my other Blue Apron recipe reviews. It's a really fun service if you want to experiment with new recipes but are too lazy to browse Pinterest all day then go buy the ingredients.

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